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“It feels like I’ve been working harder and harder and sliding backwards down the scale,” she says.

Making $50k in a small town and still "scraping by" is scary. Maybe I'm just old, but I'd hoped that kind of income would be enough for some kind of comfort.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Beanfield is only available to some condominium users in major downtown cities. It is not an available option to most Canadians, especially the vet tech in this article.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

It is not an available option to most Canadians, especially the vet tech in this article.

It's a shame that the article doesn't specify which town, but it does say University town.

If I were to guess, especially since she's a vet tech, is that she lives in Guelph or Windsor. Other vet universities in Ontario are in much larger cities.

If that's the case, she has quite a few of options for phone and internet.

[–] frostbiker@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beanfield may not be available everywhere, but Teksavvy has similar plans.

Teksavvy is available nearly everywhere and I know they have similar plans because I was a customer.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely not the case. They serve suburbs and cities. I live semi rurally and they are not a possible option.

[–] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

She lives in a college town. The vast majority of people in Canada live in urban centers. So, for most single people in Canada, spending less than $200/mo in Internet+phone is trivially simple.